Salt River Fields scores variety of other events

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The new Salt River Fields at Talking Stick dominated Cactus League attendance during the 2011 spring training season and now is poised to make its mark with bookings of baseball tournaments and other events.

“We’re close to be being booked up for the year,” said Dave Dunne, general manager of the 145-acre Salt River complex.

Dunne said dozens of baseball, soccer and lacrosse tournaments have been booked at the facility through the end of the year, including youth, Amateur Athletic Union and adult sporting competitions. Salt River Fields also will host a July 3 concert featuring country vocalist Blake Shelton and singers Casey James and Crystal Bowersox from last year’s “American Idol.”

Dunne couldn’t provide an exact number of events booked at the complex’s 13 baseball fields, but he said except for a few dates in August, Salt River Fields is pretty well booked up for 2011.

“We’re kind of turning business away,” he said.

The baseball complex is on Indian Bend Road near Loop 101 in the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, just east of Scottsdale. It opened in late February as the new spring training home of the Arizona Diamondbacks and Colorado Rockies. The two teams led the Cactus League in attendance this past season, drawing more than 359,300 fans.

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